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Tamaha (YNt-12)
ex
 Tamaha (YN-44) (1940 - 1943)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - Mike - Oscar
 NIMO
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Yard Net Laying Craft:
  • Laid down, as the harbor tug Rowen Card in 1936 at Canulette Shipbuilding Co., Slidell, LA.
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Acquired by the Navy, 25 October 1940, from Card Towing Line, Inc., New York, N.Y.
  • Converted to a net tender at New York Navy Yard
  • Placed in service, 17 December 1940, as the Yard Net Tender Tamaha (YN-44)
  • Allocated to the 14th Naval District, serving primarily at Midway Island
  • During WWII Tamaha was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Pearl Harbor - Midway
    7 December 1941     		Midway
    3 to 6 June 1942

  • Redesignated Yard Net Tender,Tug YNt-12, 8 April 1942
  • Returned to San Diego, CA., 26 March 1946, in the dock of Auxiliary Repair Dry Dock USS ARD-8
  • Placed out of service at San Diego, CA., 12 April 1946
  • Determined to be surplus to US Navy needs and struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission at San Diego, for disposal
  • Tamaha earned two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 253t.
    Length 105'
    Beam 25'
    Draft 9'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament four .30 cal machine guns
    Propulsion diesel, single propeller
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    ARD-8 176k Tamaha (YNt-12) along with the coastal mine sweeper Cockatoo AMc-8) and Coast Guard cutter CG83508 in the dock of ARD-8 at San Diego, 26 March 1946.
    Photo©San Diego Sun.    		 Clayton E. Hiscock PTR3C USS ARD-8
    ARD-8 176k USS ARD-8 moored to a buoy in San Diego Harbor, 26 March 1946 with the yard net tender, tug Tamaha (YNt-12), the coastal mine sweeper Cockatoo AMc-8) and Coast Guard cutter CG83508 in her dock.
    Photo©San Diego Sun.    		 Clayton E. Hiscock PTR3C USS ARD-8.
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